Among the top 20 richest people in East Anglia are several individuals with Cambridge connections.

Mike Lynch, 51, worth £469 million, is a Cambridge graduate who made his fortune through software and venture capital investment.

Former national table tennis champion and now managing director of a family-owned haulage and warehousing group, Paul Day, 58, is from Cambridge. He and his family are worth £275 million.

After selling baby-feeding business Avent for £300m in 2005 Edward Atkin, 72, has dedicated his time to his charitable foundation and to his Cambridge-based development company ARCC Innovations. He and his family have assets totalling £267 million.

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Sir Michael Marshall and family have a combined wealth of £230 million. Mr Marshall, 85, leads the defence and engineering company Marshall of Cambridge (Holdings). Its profits rose to £22.2 million on £1.57 billion sales in 2015, with the business worth £280 million.

Ewan Kirk, 56, launched the Cambridge-based hedge fund manager Cantab Capital Partners in 2006. Its workforce, most of whom were educated at Cambridge, have even created an algorithm to determine what food is provided for staff on Fridays. Kirk sold the business in 2016. He is worth £225 milllion.

Dr Jonathan Milner has donated large sums to Cambridge University

One of Britain's most influential biotechnology investors, Jonathan Milner, 52, co-founded Cambridge biotech supplier Abcam in 1998. He is worth £207 million and has donated £5 million each to Cambridge and Bath universities to found research institutes in his name.